 | Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 strani
...• Camer. on Myro in Acts 15. 7. 4. Humility and self-emptiness. Christ chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things...the world, to confound the things that are mighty, 1 Cor. 1. 26, 27, that nothing should be attributed to their worth and dignity, but to his grace and... | |
 | 1712 - 140 strani
...Mighty, Mighty, not many Noble $ but bath chofen the fbolifh 'Things of the World to confound the Wife, and the weak^ 'Things of the World to confound the Things that are Mighty. Ic was his pleafing Reflexion on the Difplay of God's Glory in accomplifhing his Defigns by the moft... | |
 | William Lowth - 1735 - 318 strani
...but that he 'who -was in them was greater than he that was in the world. God chofe the weak things of the world, to confound the things that are mighty, that no Jlejh might gkry in his prejence (c) ; and the planting of the Gofpel might appear to be the work of... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1743 - 500 strani
...God and the Wifdom of God: For- God hath chofen the foolijh things of the World to confound the wife, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty, That no Flejh Jhould glory in his Prefence. And in the i ith to the Rom. ver. 30, he illuftrates and ftrengthens... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 strani
...boafted Learning and Philofophy. Thus God. chofe the fooliJh Things of the World to confound the "wife, and the weak Things of the World to confound the Things that are mighty ; and hafe Things of the World, and Things which are dejpifed, hath God chofen, yea, 256 DISCOURSE... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 strani
...foolifh things '' of the world to confound the wi/e," (a title peculiarly arrogated by the Stoics) " and the " weak things of the world to confound the " things that are mighty -f- ; carting down " imaginations, and every high thing that " exalteth itfelf againft the knowledge... | |
 | James Fordyce - 1785 - 258 strani
...when thou haft " chofen the foo'ufh things of " the world to confound the things i ** that are wife, and the weak *' things of the world to confound " the things that are mighty." So it was when thou faweft fit to propagate the pure Religion of thy Son, by the feebleft inftruments,... | |
 | Joseph White - 1789 - 634 strani
...its firft preachers, that God * had chofen the foolifi things of- the •world to confound the wife, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that were mighty. Now to the candid enquirer, who views with attention the various and ftubborn difficulties,... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1796 - 364 strani
...ftrength and greatnefs, God purpofely chofe " the foolifli .things of the world to confound " the wife, : and ; the weak things of the"• world to; confound the things, that were " mighty." ;, The : refinance which his religion encountered, ferved but to illuftrate the' irrefiftible... | |
 | Robert Gray - 1796 - 360 strani
...Strength and greatnefs, God purpofely chofe " the foolifh things of the world to confound " the wife, and the weak things of the *' world to confound the things that were " mighty." The refiftance which his religion encountered, ferved but to illuftrate the irrefiftible... | |
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God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty... 
